These terms of use apply, without restrictions or reservations, to all sales concluded by the company HOVIE., a simplified joint-stock company with a capital of one thousand euros (€1,000), whose registered office is located at ZA Albitech - 54 rue Gustave Eiffel CS82210 - 81012 ALBI Cedex 9, registered with the Albi Trade and Companies Register under number 903 978 617, VAT number FR66903978617 (hereinafter referred to as the "Seller") to consumers and professional and non-professional buyers (hereinafter the "Customer" or "Customers"), wishing to acquire the products offered for sale by the Seller via its Site.

• “Customer” means the professional, non-professional or consumer who has placed an order for a product sold on the website “ https://hovie.fr ”
• “Order” means any order placed by the User on this Site;
• “Terms of Use” means these online terms of use;
• “Consumer” means the buyer who is a natural person and who is not acting for professional needs and/or outside of his professional activity;
• “Parties” means together the Seller and the Customer;
• “Products” means the material things that can be appropriated and which are offered for sale on this Site;
• “Professional” means the buyer, whether a legal entity or natural person, who acts within the framework of his professional activity to which the provisions applicable to consumers do not apply;
• “​Site​” means this website, i.e., https://hovie.fr ;
• “Company” means the company HOVIE., more fully described in Article 1 hereof;
• “User” means any legal or natural person who uses and browses this Site.

The purpose of these Terms of Use is to define, worldwide, exclusively by reason of the relationships they establish on the Internet network and solely on the Site, the rights and obligations of the Parties arising from the online sale of the Products offered on the Site.

Any User of the Site undertakes to comply, without restriction or reservation, with these conditions of use, whether visiting the Site or placing an Order. The Customer is required to read them before placing any Order.

The main characteristics of the Products, including the specifications, illustrations and capacity indications of the Products, are presented on the Site. It is the Customer's responsibility to take these into account before purchasing.

These Terms of Use apply to the exclusion of all other conditions, including those applicable to sales in stores or through other distribution and marketing channels, unless specific conditions are expressly agreed to in writing by the Company. These Terms of Use are accessible at any time on the Site and are systematically communicated to the Customer who requests them. In the event of a subsequent modification of the Terms of Use, the version applicable to the Customer's purchase is the one in force on the Site on the date the Order is placed.

Validation of the Order by the Customer constitutes acceptance without restriction or reservation and prior, full and complete adherence to the Conditions of Use.

To purchase Products on the Site, you must be of legal age and capable, i.e. legally considered authorized to enter into a contract. The Customer acknowledges having the required capacity to contract and acquire the Products offered on the Site.

All elements of the hovie.fr Site, whether visual or audio, texts, layouts, illustrations, photographs, documents and other elements, including the underlying technology, are protected by copyright, trademarks and patents.

Any total or partial reproduction of the elements accessible on the Site is strictly prohibited and will expose the offender to civil and criminal prosecution. The Seller is the owner of all property rights attached to the Site and the elements composing it and has the required licenses. It holds all intellectual property rights and derivative rights attached to the concepts and editorial content used and/or disseminated on the Site.

Generally speaking, no provision of these terms of use may be interpreted as granting the Customer, expressly or implicitly, any right whatsoever (under a license or by any other means) to the names, brands, acronyms, logos and other distinctive signs of the Seller, with the exception of the rights held by the suppliers and potential partners of the Seller over the visuals of their Products, over their brands and logos presented on the Site.

In addition, the Seller remains the owner of all intellectual property rights to the photographs, presentations, illustrations and studies produced for the purpose of providing the Services to the Client. The Client therefore undertakes not to reproduce or exploit said studies, illustrations, presentations and photographs without the express, written and prior authorization of the Seller, which may make it conditional upon financial compensation.

The Company cannot be held responsible for any unavailability, whether temporary or permanent, of the Site and although it uses all its means to ensure the service is permanently available, it may be interrupted at any time. In addition, the Company reserves the right, by voluntary act, to make the Site unavailable in order to carry out any update, improvement or maintenance operation.

As previously mentioned herein, the Company cannot under any circumstances be held responsible for delays in delivery caused by a case of force majeure as defined by the legislation in force.

The Seller is not liable in the event of failure by the carrier to deliver the Products, a failure which would be attributable exclusively to the carrier in accordance with Article L. 221-15 of the Consumer Code.

The Seller and the Customer expressly waive the right to invoke the provisions of Article 1195 of the Civil Code and the system of revision for unforeseen circumstances provided for therein. The Customer and the Seller respectively undertake to perform their obligations, even if the contractual balance is upset by circumstances unforeseeable at the time of the Order and their performance proves excessively onerous.

The Company reserves the right to modify the Site, the conditions of use or other elements constituting the services provided by the Company through this Site. The modification of the conditions of use will come into effect from the date indicated on the Site.

These Terms of Use and the operations resulting from them are governed by and subject to French law.

These Terms of Use are written in French. In the event that they are translated into one or more foreign languages, only the French text shall be authoritative in the event of a dispute.

All disputes to which the purchase and sale transactions concluded in application of these Conditions of Use may give rise, concerning their validity, their interpretation, their execution, their termination, their consequences and their results and which could not have been resolved between the Seller and the Customer will be submitted to the competent courts under the conditions of common law.

The Customer is informed that he may, in any event, resort to conventional mediation, in particular with the Consumer Mediation Commission or with existing sectoral mediation bodies, the references of which appear on the website (by email ​mediateurduecommerce@fevad.com or by post to the FEVAD E-commerce Mediator Service – 60 rue de la Boétie – 75008 Paris) or to any alternative dispute resolution method in the event of a dispute.